DAN Galeria was founded in 1972, in São Paulo, by Gláucia and Peter Cohn. In the first years of activity, the gallery focused on modern Brazilian art, presenting works by important artists of the 1920 modernist movement, such as Di Cavalcanti, Antonio Gomide, Ismael Nery, Tarsila do Amaral, among others. Still in the first years of operation, artists such as Alfredo Volpi, Cícero Dias, Antonio Bandeira and Yolanda Mohalyi were incorporated into the group represented by the gallery, which, over the past decades, has also expanded into international production and contemporary art.

The contemporary art department was created in 1985 by Flávio Cohn, son of the founded couple. Subsequently, his brother Ulisses Cohn also joined the DAN board. Combining historical research and attunement with the international market, in the last twenty years the gallery has exhibited works by Lygia Clark, Lothar Charoux, Luiz Sacilotto, Gonçalo Ivo, Ascânio MMM, Macaparana, Sérgio Fingermann and international artists such as Sol LeWitt, Antoni Tapies, Jesus Soto , Cesar Paternosto, Eduardo Stupía, Adolfo Estrada, Knopp Ferro, Ian Davenport, Max Bill, Joseph Albers, in addition to the British Tony Cragg, Kenneth Martin and Mary Martin.

DAN Galeria has always had the purpose of highlighting artists and fundamental movements of Brazilian art from the period between 1920 and today. At the same time, it maintains a close relationship with international artists, since artistic movements historically intertwine and dialogue with each other without borders.

Exposing these interlacing, highlighting the invention of our artists and the possible dialogues with international production, is the motto of our work in national and international fairs, in gallery exhibitions, in support of institutional exhibitions and in the production of content, whether in the most 100 catalogs already published, whether using digital technologies.

It is with great joy that we announce the pre-opening of the new space of Dan Galeria Contemporânea in São Paulo.

In the year in which we complete 50 years of journey, we invite you to celebrate with us this so expected moment to continue our mission of contributing to the development of Brazilian and international art.

For this moment, we present Macaparana’s solo exhibition. The gallery, located at Rua Amauri, 73, Itaim Bibi, São Paulo, is open to the public from Monday to Friday from 10 am to 7 pm and on Saturdays from 10 am to 1 pm.

In addition to the exhibition space, which should receive four to eight exhibitions per year, the infrastructure of DAN Galeria Interior has a technical reserve for storing its collection and has a helipad. The institution’s educational sector will provide sociocultural activities and actions, such as mediated visits and debates between artists represented by DAN Galeria and other artists from the metropolitan region of Votorantim and Sorocaba, creating a more attractive interface for the local audience as well.

Head of DAN Galeria Interior is Cristina Delanhesi, a businesswoman and cultural producer with extensive experience in executive production and formatting of cultural projects. Cristina created, together with a group from civil society, the MACS – Museum of Contemporary Art of Sorocaba, an institution she has chaired since 2008. In addition, she was also executive producer of large contemporary dance companies, such as Cia Deborah Colker, and Concertos Internationals that circulated through the interior of the State of São Paulo. In its attributions, it articulates both with independent productions and with partnerships with the government.

DAN Galeria’s newest space in the interior of São Paulo opened in 2023.

Located where the FAMA Museum is located, the DAN Galeria Sala São Pedro has housed institutional projects by the artists represented by the gallery and others that are being welcomed as part of the DAN Acredita project.

The purpose is to give visibility to professional artistic production in the interior or even in the capital, working with artists who are not represented by galleries.

As it is traditional at DAN to value the artists’ journey, the idea is to bring an artistic production in constant development, with artists who dedicate themselves exclusively to the visual arts and yet do not yet have the visibility compatible with their consistent production.

Visit the DAN Galeria Sala São Pedro from Wednesday to Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., in Itu.